A Safe Place for Dangerous Truths: Using Dialogue to Overcome Fear and Distrust at Work
Language: English
Published by HarperCollins Focus, 2018
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A welcome guide to creating a workplace where people can talk frankly without fear for their jobs.even if it means dredging up deep-buried conflicts or calling attention to their own shortcomings. A behavioral science consultant, Annette Simmons provides the key through the formal process of dialogue. More than ordinary conversation, this specific group give-and-take technique opens minds, eases, anxiety, and encourages straightforward truth-telling. Simmons firmly believes: When a group learns how to discuss the undiscussable, they learn how to solve the unsolvable. Packed with step-by-step how-to guidelines and helpful scenarios, this book gives readers the critical insights and skills to facilitate the process and bring the power of dialogue to any situation. Facilitators will also find pointers on asking the right questions to get a dialogue going, using story telling to bring an issue to life, and knowing when to step back and let the group go it alone. Simmons even provides a sample script for a dialogue session. Lively, down-to-earth, and encouraging, A Safe Place for Dangerous Truths charts a promising path toward renewed authenticity, openness, trust, and creative daring among people who work together.…
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- Title
- A Safe Place for Dangerous Truths: Using Dialogue to Overcome Fear and Distrust at Work
- Author
- Annette Simmons
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Focus
- Publication year
- 2018
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0814474179
- ISBN 13
- 9780814474174
No more "checking for feet." This illuminating guide gets people to tell the truth at the meeting--not in the bathroom afterwards.
Almost everybody lies. In one recent survey, 93% of people admitted to lying regularly at work! Why? Because it's safer than telling the truth. Sadly, organizations cannot succeed in this poisonous world of half-truths, strategic omissions, and doctored information.
A Safe Place for Dangerous Truths shows how the formal process of "dialogue" can create a safe place to tell the truth.
In a lively discussion, author Annette Simmons shows managers how to use this technique to:
- encourage truth-telling by reducing fear
- prompting self-examination, and opening minds
- build trust where suspicion and cynicism held sway
- inspire individuals to think and learn as a group
- help groups talk through tough issues and move to collaborative action
To function optimally, businesses must create an environment where people feel free to tell the truth, no matter how disturbing. Only then can organizations unleash the responsiveness, creativity, and enthusiasm necessary to achieve their goals.
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About the Author
ANNETTE SIMMONS is a keynote speaker, expert storyteller, and president of Group Process Consulting, whose clients include NASA, the IRS, and Microsoft. She is the author of several books including The Story Factor.
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